Mozart: Gehn wir im Prater, Secular Canons

Chamber Choir of Europe

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Mozart considered canon-writing an essential compositional skill. Though canons are often small chamber works to be performed in company, Mozart’s sketches of some of these works show that the composer carefully considered them before completion, giving them as much thought as his larger and more famous works. This collection includes Mozart’s complete canons. The works vary in instrumentation and character; among the vocal ones are puzzle canons (which show one line of music and text, along with only the entry points of the other parts), the ambitious 12-part V’amo di core and the multi-lingual Bona nox! Bist a rechta Ox. Mozart’s sense of humour is demonstrated in the two canons written to the daringly-named text of Leck mir den Arsch, as well as in the Difficile lectu mihi mars et jonicu difficile which, provided that the singer has the right accent, provides much hilarity. Aside from the vocal canons, there are several written for instruments, including the Adagio in F major, composed for two basset horns and bassoon.

Works:
• Mozart: Adagio in F major, K410
• Mozart: Alleluja, four voice canon in C Major, K553
• Mozart: Auf das Wohl aller Freunde, K508
• Mozart: Ave Maria in F major (Canon), K554
• Mozart: Bona nox, K561
• Mozart: Canon "Lieber Freistadtler, lieber Gaulimauli', K232
• Mozart: Canon for 2 violins, viola and bass, KAnh191
• Mozart: Canon, K508b
• Mozart: Canonical Study, Kdeest 'Sinkt die Nacht'
• Mozart: Canons (8) for 2 or 3 voices, K508a
• Mozart: Caro bell'idol mio, K562
• Mozart: Difficile lectu, K559
• Mozart: Dona nobis pacem, KAnh109d
• Mozart: Essen, trinken, K234
• Mozart: G'rechtelt's enk, K556
• Mozart: Gehn wir im Prater, K558
• Mozart: Heil dem Tag, dem die Nacht erlag, K347
• Mozart: Heiterkeit und leichtes Blut, K507
• Mozart: Horch, ihr susses Lied, K562a
• Mozart: Kyrie in G, K89
• Mozart: Lacrimoso son io, K555
• Mozart: Lebet wohl, K228
• Mozart: Leck mich im Arsch, K231
• Mozart: Leck mir den Arsch, K233
• Mozart: Nascoso e il mio sol, K557
• Mozart: O du eselhafter Martin, K560b
• Mozart: Riddle Canons (5), Op. 89a
• Mozart: Selig, selig alle, K230
• Mozart: Sie ist dahin, K229
• Mozart: V'amo di core, K348

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Brilliant Classics

13/11/2019

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